ABC.net.au has published an article titled "The Case for Piracy". The writer shows how copyright has been hijacked by corporations and that publishers are their own worst enemies. "One of the main reasons we all have anti-piracy slogans embedded in our brains is because the music industry chose to try and protect its existing market and revenue streams at all costs and marginalise and vilify those who didn't want to conform to the harsh new rules being set."

And there's plenty of free video out there to last you several lifetimes.

Point taken, though I've never bothered to look.

Until recently, I was even cell-phone-free for 6 years - if you think about it, having that thing tethered to you 24x7 is a jail. Break free! Unfortunately, I still must work a day job, and they required me to have a phone - so now I carry one again :/

IMHO, cell phones have a lot of tangible benefits, such as actually being able to get a hold of people when you're on the road... not to mention built-in maps and gps, which, if you get lost as easily as I do, really come in handy